.. people in bands. I've noticed that the only search engine referrals I get beyond the 4th or 5th page or for band names, often obscure indie bands, and they might get down to page 30 or 40 before they hit the passing mention I make of them on my site.
There are some seriously self-conscious people out there in the music world. And yeah most of them are self-searchers, based on when I've baited and panned bands and gotten direct reactions from them.
Can I be the first to point out the irony that this story posting contains exactly two words that weren't cut and pasted from the person submitting the article?
Atrios rightly points out that many many newspapers often pick up press releases and run them almost un-edited as content, and that it's been going on for a long time. The difference is that on the web such practices are much more easily exposed. "Much ado about nothing" indeed.
I have the greatest sympathy for IT/CS people who dislike "politics" and try to avoid it in their jobs. This guy, though, had a job in the GOVERNMENT. How can he feign outrage that politics became involved?
It used to be that the civil service took pride in carrying out their jobs for the sake of public service and not as part of a political machine. It's a shame that that idea seems to be out of the ordinary these days.
That's not likely to last forever. All it takes is one good competing ad campaign, and they've lost that. Also, iPods are consumer electronics devices. When one wears out, there's a clean "breaking point" where there's no cost to the customer is switching to a competing brand with more space for the cost.
Except for all the songs and movies that one might have bought from the iTunes music store. This is what's got Microsoft and the Korean knockoff mp3 player makers so upset that their 'standard'.wma format is being ignored by Apple.
When I did this ONE YEAR AGO I considered it too basic and obvious to even mention to my friends nevermind write an article on!!!
I think it's suddenly news because someone managed to get Ipod into the story.
Wow, people really do get touchy when they try to defend buying an mp3 player other than an iPod.
One of the things I tend to use the battery in my laptop for most is to keep the thing on when I move from one room to the other in the house and then plug in again.
Seems like a sensible thing someone would want to do with a mini, to go from a desk in a study over to the bedroom or to the stereo to play some music for a while without having to shut down and restart.
I don't see any fans or other way the heat is dissipated into the air, from the oil.
Except that the fans are still on, which supposedly moves the oil around. And when oil at the surface becomes warmer than room temperature, the heat is disappated into the air, with much greater surface area than is touching the heat source.
uh, what Bible are you reading? Surely not the one in which it says flat out that homosexuality is punishable by death.
That same bible isn't too keen on divorce or eating shellfish, either.
Top Ten Reasons to Become a Mac Programmer...
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Modern Mac Development?
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Just wrote these today, coincidentally...
10. All the blue-coloured widgets and background images are good for the soul.
9. You can keep a Terminal.app window open and pretend to be a Unix hacker.
8. Crappy enterprise data access support means no horrible database programming.
7. People will think you're some kind of artist or writer or something else less socially leper-ous than being a programmer.
6. Interface Builder's NeXTStep heritage will force you into a Model-View-Controller architecture so strongly that even design-as-you-go nitwits like me will be saved from their own poor planning.
5. No matter what you do, Wired will eventually write a feature story about you.
4. All the built-in eye candy and automatic alignment guides will make you look like you know something about UI design.
3. The development tools don't cost more than what your stupid shareware program will probably earn you.
2. The Indian programmer who stole your Windows coding job can't afford to buy a Mac.
1. Chicks dig iBooks.
People who have used Linux want something that THEY have worked on, THEY have started.
The number of people who have actually 'worked on' linux, as compared with the potential market of users that Sun is thinking about, is very very small. And as the takeup of OS X among the Unix crowd shows, people want usability and new technology over some ideological purity that Linux / GPL seem to worry about.
Most people who just want to get work done are rather more pragmatic about their software.
As for Linux, though, Sun has shown that they are willing to use it where it makes sense to , and are just as happy to charge you for their services whether you want to run them on an AMD system running linux or one of their big Sparc machines.
Besides that, I'm guessing Java Desktop will eventually find a happy home on Linux as well as Solaris.
The trouble with High-definition porn is that you actually get to see what 10+ years of over-work does to a someone's body. Not a pretty sight. I can't see this being good for the porn industry.
There's no way I can believe that Linus hasn't sat and repeatedly pressed the Exposé key while drooling like the rest of us when we first get our Macs.
Yea its very offensive to propose men and women mught have a different psychological makeup, but its just plain academic freedom to call the victoms of 9/11 little eichmans..
Did it not perhaps occur to you that something would need to be protected under academic freedom precisely because it might be considered offensive? Meanwhile, Summers is not an academic, he is an administrator. So your post does nothing more than point out that the sky is blue.
which last time I checked, all C programmers deal with.
"Trust the programmer" is the most asinine statement ever put to paper, with the possible exception of "security through obscurity."
We have an operating system so that programmers don't have to do boilerplate file and memory operations themselves, we have good type-safe languages so they don't have to spend time profiling all of their code to make sure it doesn't have any buffer overrun risks.
contrary to rumors around the Internet, Apple has told Macworld that you can even do it yourself without voiding your warranty "unless you break something when you open it.")
Looks like heresy to me just like every other statement out there. When I said that I want an official statement I mean OFFICIAL. From Apple on Apple.com.
And people accuse mac fans of being the religiously fanatical ones.
I would like to add that I wish that codemonkeys would port this tool to Linux or start a project of adding support for their software to talk to there software like this because it would d be nice to use it to actually do collaboration over the net.
SubEthaEdit is a Cocoa application, which means porting it for Windows / Linux would require nearly a total re-write depending on how much of it is written in Objective-C. And from my experience with writing Cocoa apps vs. Win / Linux apps, you can get a very feature-rich, polished application up and running much more quickly with Cocoa, thanks to its use of frameworks. So a port to another OS might just seem like too much work for the team they have.
But I would definitely love for more programmers to start using ZeroConf (rendezvous' generic name) on other platforms. It's just a damn neat protocol.
That's not the point.
The point is whether Microsoft has used its monopoly position in the market to stifle competition.
The same argument is always used by companies accused of dumping in a market, and it doesn't hold up in court.
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Here: Chavez Hatred Explained to Americans.
"Dude, are you unscannable?!"
Linux comes with 8 different calculators, half of which use RPN :)
There are some seriously self-conscious people out there in the music world. And yeah most of them are self-searchers, based on when I've baited and panned bands and gotten direct reactions from them.
wwaaannnaa cam?
Atrios rightly points out that many many newspapers often pick up press releases and run them almost un-edited as content, and that it's been going on for a long time. The difference is that on the web such practices are much more easily exposed. "Much ado about nothing" indeed.
It used to be that the civil service took pride in carrying out their jobs for the sake of public service and not as part of a political machine. It's a shame that that idea seems to be out of the ordinary these days.
Except for all the songs and movies that one might have bought from the iTunes music store. This is what's got Microsoft and the Korean knockoff mp3 player makers so upset that their 'standard' .wma format is being ignored by Apple.
When I did this ONE YEAR AGO I considered it too basic and obvious to even mention to my friends nevermind write an article on!!! I think it's suddenly news because someone managed to get Ipod into the story. Wow, people really do get touchy when they try to defend buying an mp3 player other than an iPod.
Microsoft demonstrating that Linux and OO.o can be the right tool for such a job? That is a big deal.
One of the things I tend to use the battery in my laptop for most is to keep the thing on when I move from one room to the other in the house and then plug in again. Seems like a sensible thing someone would want to do with a mini, to go from a desk in a study over to the bedroom or to the stereo to play some music for a while without having to shut down and restart.
Except that the fans are still on, which supposedly moves the oil around. And when oil at the surface becomes warmer than room temperature, the heat is disappated into the air, with much greater surface area than is touching the heat source.
Apple's way ahead of you...
uh, what Bible are you reading? Surely not the one in which it says flat out that homosexuality is punishable by death.
That same bible isn't too keen on divorce or eating shellfish, either.
Just wrote these today, coincidentally... 10. All the blue-coloured widgets and background images are good for the soul. 9. You can keep a Terminal.app window open and pretend to be a Unix hacker. 8. Crappy enterprise data access support means no horrible database programming. 7. People will think you're some kind of artist or writer or something else less socially leper-ous than being a programmer. 6. Interface Builder's NeXTStep heritage will force you into a Model-View-Controller architecture so strongly that even design-as-you-go nitwits like me will be saved from their own poor planning. 5. No matter what you do, Wired will eventually write a feature story about you. 4. All the built-in eye candy and automatic alignment guides will make you look like you know something about UI design. 3. The development tools don't cost more than what your stupid shareware program will probably earn you. 2. The Indian programmer who stole your Windows coding job can't afford to buy a Mac. 1. Chicks dig iBooks.
People who have used Linux want something that THEY have worked on, THEY have started. The number of people who have actually 'worked on' linux, as compared with the potential market of users that Sun is thinking about, is very very small. And as the takeup of OS X among the Unix crowd shows, people want usability and new technology over some ideological purity that Linux / GPL seem to worry about. Most people who just want to get work done are rather more pragmatic about their software. As for Linux, though, Sun has shown that they are willing to use it where it makes sense to , and are just as happy to charge you for their services whether you want to run them on an AMD system running linux or one of their big Sparc machines. Besides that, I'm guessing Java Desktop will eventually find a happy home on Linux as well as Solaris.
The trouble with High-definition porn is that you actually get to see what 10+ years of over-work does to a someone's body. Not a pretty sight. I can't see this being good for the porn industry.
Because, of course, no PC company ever thought to send Linus a freebie box before.
There's no way I can believe that Linus hasn't sat and repeatedly pressed the Exposé key while drooling like the rest of us when we first get our Macs.
Did it not perhaps occur to you that something would need to be protected under academic freedom precisely because it might be considered offensive? Meanwhile, Summers is not an academic, he is an administrator. So your post does nothing more than point out that the sky is blue.
which last time I checked, all C programmers deal with.
"Trust the programmer" is the most asinine statement ever put to paper, with the possible exception of "security through obscurity."
We have an operating system so that programmers don't have to do boilerplate file and memory operations themselves, we have good type-safe languages so they don't have to spend time profiling all of their code to make sure it doesn't have any buffer overrun risks.
Looks like heresy to me just like every other statement out there. When I said that I want an official statement I mean OFFICIAL. From Apple on Apple.com.
And people accuse mac fans of being the religiously fanatical ones.
SubEthaEdit is a Cocoa application, which means porting it for Windows / Linux would require nearly a total re-write depending on how much of it is written in Objective-C. And from my experience with writing Cocoa apps vs. Win / Linux apps, you can get a very feature-rich, polished application up and running much more quickly with Cocoa, thanks to its use of frameworks. So a port to another OS might just seem like too much work for the team they have.
But I would definitely love for more programmers to start using ZeroConf (rendezvous' generic name) on other platforms. It's just a damn neat protocol.
That's not the point. The point is whether Microsoft has used its monopoly position in the market to stifle competition. The same argument is always used by companies accused of dumping in a market, and it doesn't hold up in court.
A little thing called the great depression showed the error of that little scenario.